{"id":269072,"date":"2023-05-23T06:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T06:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269072"},"modified":"2023-05-24T07:29:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T07:29:19","slug":"media-and-politicians-throw-so-much-bullshit-at-us-that-it-is-difficult-to-see-through-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269072","title":{"rendered":"Media And Politicians Throw So Much Bullshit At Us That It Is Difficult To See Through It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama \u2013 May 22, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Western media are feeding us bullshit. It is so strong that even western politicians, like the public, seem to believe in it. The reason is that it is increasingly difficult to detect the bullshit because there is just too much of it.<\/p>\n

Gilbert Doctorow takes on the Western disinformation campaign<\/a> especially with regards to the fall of Bakhmut:<\/p>\n

[I]t is these censorious states and the mass media that carry their messages with stenographic precision into print and electronic dissemination who are the ones that day after day feed disinformation<\/em> to the public. It is cynically composed and consists of a toxic blend of \u2018spin,\u2019 by which is meant misleading interpretation of events, and outright lies.<\/p>\n

The many months long battle for the provincial Donbas city of Bakhmut, or Artyomovsk as it is known in Russia, has been described variously from on high in Washington, London and Berlin. When the likely outcome was unclear, the defense of Bakhmut was called heroic and demonstrative of the brave fighting spirit of the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n

Casualty figures issued by Kiev and then trumpeted from Washington suggested that the Russians were stupidly throwing away the lives of their fighting men by using WWI style human waves of attackers who were decimated by the defenders. Russian lives are cheap was the message. The fact that Russian artillery on site outnumbered and outperformed Ukrainian artillery by a factor of five or seven to one was freely admitted by the Western propagandists as they pleaded for increased supplies to Kiev. They, nonetheless, issued casualty reports for the Russians that inverted the force correlation.<\/strong> It was assumed, obviously with reason, that the public was too lazy or too uninterested to do the arithmetic.<\/p>\n

I had earlier taken on the nonsensical casualty claims<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Cont. reading: Media And Politicians Throw So Much Bullshit At Us That It Is Difficult To See Through It<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama and Gilbert Doctorow examine some of the disinformation spouted by the Western media and politicians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,25,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-The_Media","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269073,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269072\/revisions\/269073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}